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1931.86.206

Plaited armlet, with decorative pattern. Displayed along with 1931.86.204 to 1931.86.209 on a cylindrical museum mount with a flat base. [ZM 6/11/2003]

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1931.86.206

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Collection type
Object
Description
Plaited armlet, with decorative pattern. Displayed along with 1931.86.204 to 1931.86.209 on a cylindrical museum mount with a flat base. [ZM 6/11/2003]
Geographical reference
Bougainville
Person
Field collector Beatrice Mary Blackwood
PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood
Date / Period
Date made: Before 10/1930
Date collected
By October 1930
Acquisition information
Donated: 1931
Materials and processes
Material Plant Fibre, Process Plaited, Process Basketry
Dimensions
Width: max 15 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1931.86.206 Other numbers: Blackwood number 205
Research and responses

Related Documents File - i) List of 'Contents of Cases sent from Soraken in April 1930.' ii) Notes on: 'Mourning Belt'; 'Map of Buka and Bouganville, areas from which most of the specimens were collected are marked in ink'; 'String Making'; 'Fire'; 'Buka Pottery'; 'Photograph illustrating the use of the implement for scraping coconut'; 'Rite for a new fishing kite, Petats'; 'Fans'; 'Woman's Hoods'; iii) Correspondence: Letter from A. D. Cotton of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew to Beatrice Blackwood, dated 4 November, 1931, thanking her for her map, list of specimens and 'plants used for food magic' which she had sent to be identified; Letter from Arthur Hill, director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to Beatrice Blackwood, dated 23 December, 1931, stating that he is enclosing the identification of the plants she had sent to Kew [this list does not appear to be with this RDF file]; iv) Duplicate photographs of Beatrice Blackwood's Buka material. [GI 29/11/2001]

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